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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR6803
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2005-03-10
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2004-04-15
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: 6201-000-20
- Contact Person: Norma Conner
- Phone: 9743337
- Email: nconner@hsc.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 6803
- Full Title: Foundations of ClinResearch for Hlth Professionals
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Found Clini Resh Hlth Profess
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
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- Course Description: Research designs and methods for health professionals. Emphasis on quantitative approaches to research designs.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Demand form nurses and HSC health professional for this content and clinical skill development
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Designed as part of HSC wide offering based on strategic planning data
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD health professionals with clinical trial experience
- Objectives: 1. Examine the fundamentals of clinical research.
2. Explicate clinical problems that are researchable in the form of research aims, questions, or research hypotheses when appropriate.
3. Prepare an integrative literature review based on past research in a specified area of interest.
4. Select appropriate research designs to study clinical problems for quantitative studies.
5. Identify an exemplar appropriate for a case report design.
6. Examine the process of sampling and recruitment in quantitative studies.
7. Identify data collection techniques appropriate for the research aims or questions.
8. Identify appropriate statistical and nonstatistical methods to analyze the proposed research variables or research questions.
9. Explain the components of informed consent and ethical guidelines for human and animal participation in research.
10. Critique a published research report.
11. Identify potential sources of federal, foundational and corporate funding for research.
- Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine the fundamentals of clinical research.
2. Explicate clinical problems that are researchable in the form of research aims, questions, or research hypotheses when appropriate.
3. Prepare an integrative literature review based on past research in a specified area of interest.
4. Select appropriate research designs to study clinical problems for quantitative studies.
5. Identify an exemplar appropriate for a case report design.
6. Examine the process of sampling and recruitment in quantitative studies.
7. Identify data collection techniques appropriate for the research aims or questions.
8. Identify appropriate statistical and nonstatistical methods to analyze the proposed research variables or research questions.
9. Explain the components of informed consent and ethical guidelines for human and animal participation in research.
10. Critique a published research report.
11. Identify potential sources of federal, foundational and corporate funding for research.
- Major Topics: Module I The Fundamentals
Module II Using the Literature
Module III Designing Research
Module IV Case Reports
Module VI Quantitative Designs
Module VII Data Collection/Analysis
Module VIII Research Ethics
Module VIIII Completing the Circle
- Textbooks: 1. Leedy, P. D. and Ormrod, J.E. (2001). Practical research: Planning and design (7th ed.).
i. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
2. Friedman, L.M., Furberg, C. D., and DeMets, D.L. (1998). Fundamentals of clinical trials
i. (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.
3. Yin, R. K. (2002). Case Study Research (3rd ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications
4. You need to have a statistics textbook (of your choice) available for reference.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.